With natural talent and self-taught skills, Nancy Coblentz-Nelson transforms clay into award-winning dolls. Only three years into doll-making, she was inducted into the Original Doll Artists Council ...

Crafting Akua'ba doll magnets is a fun way to merge art with culture. These traditional African fertility symbols, with their ...

“I haven’t come across a culture, a country, a continent, or a people, who do not have dolls,” said artist Kristina Cranston. As I peered into her doll world, I noted a tiny yellow-beaded octopus bag ...

As you read this, two clay artists — Dinesh Mondal and Naresh Das — from Manmathanagar village in West Bengal would have begun the second half of their 40-hour train journey from Kolkata to Mumbai.

Xiang Chenxi, a 27-year-old woman with progressive muscular dystrophy, makes a clay doll at the workbench in her home in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. [Photo provided to China Daily] There are different ...

Clay, terracotta, wood, shellac, dokra, jute, cloth — know about the various types of dolls in Bengal on World Doll Day Dolls made with jute, shellac and terracotta. If you are a millennial and have ...